ENEMY'S AIRCRAFT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2730, 27 March 1916, Page 5

ENEMY'S AIRCRAFT

OPINIONS OF AN EXPERT

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright

(Rec. March 26, 5.5 p.m.)

London, Marih 25. Mr. Georgo Prade,' a ' well-known aeronautical expert, states that he inspected a Zeppelin which was destroyed at Nevigny. Its number showed that at least fifty-two liad been constructed during the last eighteen months. The Germans are now conifloting one every ten days. The wrecked Zeppelin had five Maybach motors, with propellers.. The metal was aluminium, toughened with a slight alloy of copper and zinc, and tapered towards the stern, giving less resistance. Several of 'the corpses had beoa carbonised, but apparently the crow numbered twenty-three, and. the vessel carried 1500 kilogrammes of bombs, composed of twenty projectiles each, placed in a special bomb-thrower., fired by an electric current, controlled by a push button in the cabin. She carried six machine-guns, but no cannon. There was no trace of a powerful searchlight, and he adds:' '

••• Three forms of attack on Zeppelins are possible. / : Firstly, by gun-planes, before they reach London or Paris.

- Secondly, by anti-aircraft guns while over the cities. .

Thirdly, by light chasing aeroplanes, armed with machine-guns and incendiary rockets, which could attack the Zeppelins when on the return journey, and from a high altitude. \

Germany has forty .of these to-day, mostly acting as patrols in the North Sea, the Zeppelins principal task being the keeping of communication with the fleet of submarines.

AIR-RAID ON KENT

THE CASUALTIES. London, March 25, 5.15

; The High Commissioner reports:— "The casualties resulting from Sunday's air raid on Kent were. 4 men, 3 women, and 6 children killed, 25 injured."

OBITUARY

LORD SCAR,SDALE. Br Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. ' London, March 24. • Lord Scarsdale is dead. [The Rev. Alfred Nathaniel Holdcn Curzon, fourth Barou Scarsdale (the title was created in 1761) was born ill July, 1831, being a son of the Hon. and Rev. Alfred Cur.yui and a grandson of the second baron. His heir is his soil, Earl Curzon, of Kedlestone, Lord Privy Seal, and one time Viccroy of India.}